IIS App Pool Status with Powershell

I guess no one knows the answer to this one. I'm still working on getting a monitor to do this....

Hey there,

I just randomly found your post and thought I would help you out, even if I am a bit late.

I had some trouble with the output as well but once you understand it it becomes obvious where the mistake was in your script.

This is what I created from your script:

$results = $item = $appPool = $status = $NULL

$status = "1"

import-module WebAdministration

$results = Get-ChildItem IIS:\AppPools\* #| Where-Object { $_.Name -like "www.mysite.com*" }

foreach ($item in $results) {

$appPool += "`n"

$appPool += $item.Name + " - state: " + $item.State

if ($item.State -ne "Started") {$status = "0"}

#$status = $item.State

}

write-host "Message:$appPool"

write-host "Statistic.:$status"

It's not perfect but it does the job. Little explanation: the script will list all your websites together with the state in the message variable and it outputs a statistic that is either "1" if all your websites are running or "0" if one of the websites is down.

If you want it to be more specific, you can put all these variables in different variables (up to 10 pairs of message and statistic variables I think). You can not put out the output in a loop, you have to collect the data and output it at the very end of the script.

In your case you probably know how many websites are running on the server so you could do it without a loop. Just go through the array and fill your different message and statistics variables.

I am by no means an expert and this is not a perfect solution, but I thought a nudge in the right direction might help you. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. I will do my best to answer them.

Thanks man! I'll give that try when I get a chance.

This works in that it shows all the pools and their state, but when testing the script output, Orion returns "Get output failed". When testing the monitor, it fails with "Unknown status".

Since I'm only interested in whether the app pools are running or not, this works with SAM interpreting a "Down" or "Up" state with the exit codes;

import-module WebAdministration

$status = 0

$results = Get-ChildItem IIS:\AppPools\* | Where-Object { $_.Name -like "*power*" }

foreach ($item in $results) {

if ($item.State -eq "Stopped") {

$status = 1

write-host "Statistic:$status"

exit 1;

}

}

write-host "Statistic:$status"

exit 0;

Hi.  I can't seem to get it to work - I get the following error:

Any ideas?

This usually means wherever you're trying to import the module, it doesn't exist.

It works when I run it in PowerShell window, but doesn't inside SAM.   Does the module have to be copied into SAM somewhere?

Got it to work and made some tweaks.   There are two components:  AppPools gives the name of AppPool and its State.   AppPoolsStopped gives the name of the stopped AppPool and its state.

Make sure you run this on x64 mode.    I have upload this template to content exchange.

AppPools:

Import-Module WebAdministration

$status=0

$AppPool=""

$AppPoolStopped=""

$AppPoolStoppedCount=0

$results = Get-ChildItem IIS:\AppPools\*

foreach ($item in $results) {

   $AppPool=$AppPool+$item.name+"("+$item.state+"), "

   if ($item.state -eq "Stopped") {$AppPoolStopped=$AppPoolStopped+"("+$item.state+"), " ; $AppPoolStoppedCount=$AppPoolStoppedCount+1}

   }

$AppPool=$AppPool.substring(0,$AppPool.length-2)

Write-Host "Message:  $AppPool";

Write-Host "Statistic: 1"

#Write-Host "Message: $AppPoolStopped"

#if ($AppPoolStopped -eq "") {

#Write-Host "Statistic: 0"; exit 0} else {Write-Host "Statistic: $AppPoolStoppedCount"; exit 1}

AppPoolsStopped:

Import-Module WebAdministration

$status=0

$AppPool=""

$AppPoolStopped=""

$AppPoolStoppedCount=0

$results = Get-ChildItem IIS:\AppPools\*

foreach ($item in $results) {

   $AppPool=$AppPool+$item.name+"("+$item.state+"), ";

   if ($item.state -eq "Stopped") {$AppPoolStopped=$AppPoolStopped+$item.name+"("+$item.state+"), " ;

        $AppPoolStoppedCount=$AppPoolStoppedCount+1

   }

   }

#Write-Host "Message:  $AppPool";

#Write-Host "Statistic: 1"

$AppPoolStopped=$AppPoolStopped.substring(0,$AppPoolStopped.length-2)

Write-Host "Message: $AppPoolStopped"

if ($AppPoolStopped -eq "")

     {Write-Host "Statistic: 0"; exit 0}

    else {Write-Host "Statistic: $AppPoolStoppedCount"; exit 0}

Couldn't get the exit 1 to work.  There are a few threads on it.

Thx for the template....however how do i check the status of multiple app pool names I have running on my IIS servers. I have more app pools than the defaultapppool and I need to know when they go down or crash? Thank